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Training The Whiplash Injury Biomechanics & Traumatology Module 1: Advanced Topics; the Fundamental Scince In depth review of our current state of knowledge of the whiplash phenomenon, including all

1 Training The Whiplash Injury Biomechanics & Traumatology Module 1: Advanced Topics; the Fundamental Scince In depth review of our current state of knowledge of the whiplash phenomenon, including all factors affecting injury risk and outcome. In-depth biomechanics, traumatology, epidemiology, review of outcome studies, and common sequelae of whiplash, including brain injuries, pain syndromes, thoracic outlet syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, and chronic pain disorders. Risk analysis I. Module 2: Advanced Diagnostics, Treatment, and Auto Crash Reconstruction; Management Principles in Personal Injury Critical history taking and physical examination skills. Radiographic and advanced imaging, including CT, MRI, scintigraphy, PET, SPECT, and others. Electrodiagnostic testing and their applications in whiplash. Therapeutic approaches to successful management of whiplash and mild traumatic brain injuries. Risk analysis II. Module 3: Narrative Report Writing and Practice Development; Principles of Impairment Rating and Forensic Documentation Comprehensive and compelling narrative report construction. Learn how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls. Learn the latest cutting edge techniques and rebuttal strategies. Learn today s critical forensic documentation skills and impairment requirements. How to expand your PI practice. Module 4: Medicolegal Issues; Fundamentals for Practitioners and Forensic Experts Foundations for successful outcome in medicolegal cases. Preparing for depositions, arbitration, and court. Use of demonstrative evidence. Learn the common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Learn how to take advantage of your opponent s weaknesses. Gain total confidence in all medicolegal proceedings. The 23 rd Annual SRISD Scienti ic Conference November Each year hundreds of new papers relating to whiplash trauma appear in the world scientific and engineering literature. Dr. Croft carefully synthesizes this body of work and presents it at our Annual SRISD Scientific Conference. Open to graduates of the four-module program only, it leads to certification in Whiplash and Brain Injury Traumatology and a listing on the Spine Research Institute of San Diego website. This is the most comprehensive training offered worldwide and graduates make up the elite of the cognoscenti. Get your ADVANCED CERTIFICATION Crash 2002, San Diego, CA Coronado Island Marriott Resort & Spa Page i

Module book and cassette tape/cd sets are also available separately for $195 each. Why not take advantage of that dead time spent commuting?

2 Books, Tapes, and CDs Module Books and Audiocassette Tapes/CDs Module books and audiocassette tapes/cds will be available for all Modules. These books are supplied to seminar attendees at no extra charge, however. Cassette tapes or CDs are available to attendees at an additional charge of $55 per Module. Module book and cassette tape/cd sets are also available separately for $195 each. Why not take advantage of that dead time spent commuting? 2017 Books and CDs Available Proceedings of the 3 rd through the 22 nd ( ) Annual SRISD Scienti ic Conferences Each year hundreds of new papers are published in the scientific and engineering literature on the topic of whiplash injury. The Proceedings of the Annual Advanced Programs contain all of the abstracts of these papers, along with Dr. Croft s insightful critiques of those papers. It s an excellent way to stay on the cutting edge of this rapidly expanding science. Contains material not found in Dr. Croft s textbook or the Module books. Most are well over 150 pages in length. Still only $95 each. Also available as PLUG-INS for the Whiplash in Hypertext 4.1 program.

Books, Tapes, and CDs Whiplash: a Patient s Guide to Recovery A complete patient guide supporting chiropractic care, with activities of daily living, exercise, nutrition, and more.

Whiplash and TMJ Injuries (Book and Video) Whiplash and TMJ Injuries by Dennis Steigerwald, DC, is the definitive TMJ injury management training course. Comes complete with videotape. $149.95. Dr.

The Problems: Insurers who dissimulate and deny A government lacking teeth Auto makers who pay lip service to safety Lawyers and their problems and foibles Doctors who are in the dark Expert

3 Books, Tapes, and CDs Whiplash: a Patient s Guide to Recovery A complete patient guide supporting chiropractic care, with activities of daily living, exercise, nutrition, and more. Also handy as a handout for attorneys. With 81 pages and 51 illustrations. Available in quantities at discounted prices. Minimum purchase is 10 for $50. Whiplash and TMJ Injuries (Book and Video) Whiplash and TMJ Injuries by Dennis Steigerwald, DC, is the definitive TMJ injury management training course. Comes complete with videotape. $ Dr. Croft s Latest TEXTBOOK! The Problems: Insurers who dissimulate and deny A government lacking teeth Auto makers who pay lip service to safety Lawyers and their problems and foibles Doctors who are in the dark Expert witnesses for hire And, of course, patients This new whiplash authority approaches both the problems of whiplash and patient-directed therapeutic strategies from a bold new perspective. Written for doctors and patients. Therapies What works and what doesn t. The best and worst of therapies: Drugs PT Acupuncture Epidural steroids RF neurotomy Surgery Chiropractic A comparative effectiveness rating for all $ Page iii

Our Latest Product Written and developed entirely by Dr. A.C.

age. Fully customizable as to text, colors, and other layout

What s the most scientific way to plot critical data?

.. by comparing your patient to age- and sex-based normative

Copy and paste color or black and white plots into Word,

Serial NDI component scores with % improvement.

ROM for all other major joints. Neck Disability Index.

Visual analog pain scale Impact of Events Scale.

Problem Checklist. Rivermead Postconcussion Questionnaire.

4 Our Latest Product Written and developed entirely by Dr. A.C. Croft Cervical and lumbar ROM are plotted with preprogrammed regression equations. All you enter are the ranges you measured and the patient's age. Fully customizable as to text, colors, and other layout features. What s the most scientific way to plot critical data? Turns out it s also the easiest way... by comparing your patient to age- and sex-based normative data. Now you can do that easily AND create eye-popping plots with a few keystrokes. Virtually everything is done for you. Copy and paste color or black and white plots into Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and most other programs. Serial NDI component scores with % improvement. Plots Include: Cervical and lumbar normative ROM. ROM for all other major joints. Neck Disability Index. Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Index. Visual analog pain scale Impact of Events Scale. Life Satisfaction 11. Whiplash Disability Questionnaire. Problem Checklist. Rivermead Postconcussion Questionnaire. Everything s included. The DVD Tutorial will have you up and running in no time flat. You can plot the NDI and Oswestry Disability in a single plot: plot single or up to four serial measurements to document progress over time. Impairment over time. $399 ($299 seminar price) Or choose to plot only specific subscales.

DVDs The Machine vs. Man Series These DVDs comprise approximately 100 full-scale crash tests conducted by Dr.

These tests include low speed rear impact collisions with human subjects, low speed sideswipes and far side collisions with human subjects and test dummies, high speed

car collisions using an Air Force test dummy. All of the DVDs come with affidavits of authenticity and text files that point out the important features of each test.

They can be used for patient education, in public or informal lectures, and in medicolegal settings as a way of demonstrating the typical occupant kinematics in a wide range

5 DVDs The Machine vs. Man Series These DVDs comprise approximately 100 full-scale crash tests conducted by Dr. Croft at the Spine Research Institute of San Diego over a period of 8 years. These tests include low speed rear impact collisions with human subjects, low speed sideswipes and far side collisions with human subjects and test dummies, high speed frontal collisions with human volunteers featuring airbag deployments, high speed rear impact collisions with RID 2, BioRID, or Hybrid III test dummies, and pedestrian vs. car collisions using an Air Force test dummy. All of the DVDs come with affidavits of authenticity and text files that point out the important features of each test. These DVDs are very unique, extremely compelling, and are fascinating to watch. They can be used for patient education, in public or informal lectures, and in medicolegal settings as a way of demonstrating the typical occupant kinematics in a wide range of crash scenarios. With so many different tests one can demonstrate a variety of phenomena such as the effect of poor head restraint geometry, the phenomenon of the double impact, the difference between near side and far side impacts on occupants, the different kinematic response of males and females, and many others. According, Dr. Croft recommends owning all four DVDs in order to have a complete library of reference collisions. Page v

Tutorials Tutorial DVDS (all feature Dr. Croft) Hypertext 4.0 Get yourself up to speed in seconds with this great tutorial and you ll never have to read a single sentence of documentation.

One 50-minute tutorial covers all of the main features of PowerPoint itself and the other 50-minute tutorial looks exclusively at the Whiplash: the Epidemic slides and how to effectively give the

6 Tutorials Tutorial DVDS (all feature Dr. Croft) Hypertext 4.0 Get yourself up to speed in seconds with this great tutorial and you ll never have to read a single sentence of documentation. $80 retail; $65 seminar discount. Whiplash: the Epidemic 6.0 Pro This tutorial consists of two parts. One 50-minute tutorial covers all of the main features of PowerPoint itself and the other 50-minute tutorial looks exclusively at the Whiplash: the Epidemic slides and how to effectively give the talk. $80 retail; $65 seminar discount. Auto Safety Facts This tutorial consists of two parts. One 50-minute tutorial covers all of the main features of PowerPoint itself and the other 50-minute tutorial looks exclusively at the Auto Safety Facts slides and how to effectively give the talk. $80 retail; $65 seminar discount. These two DVDs were recorded in 2006 in Seattle and feature three seasoned trial attorneys, Dr. Croft, and Dr. Lee Corley engaged in the reenactment of a real case. Current Medicolegal Concepts the first DVD contains a full day of discussion of important legal concepts which concern doctors and their patients. The Mock Trial is the actual trial itself. These DVDs are sold separately or as a set. Set: $350 retail; $300 seminar

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7 Software Whiplash: the Epidemic 6.0 Pro NOW PLAYING ON YOUR LAPTOP! PowerPoint format. Long- and short-play versions. Ingenius design allows you to control the length and speed of the program virtually on-the-go. Fully editable. Add slides, delete them, sort them, or modify them. For the first time, contains stunning crash test footage. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE. Absolutely all new focus and material for Don t stunt your PI practice growth with imitations the original just got better. The only proven PI practice development tool. Give attorney presentations in your office and demonstrate your understanding of whiplash traumatology. $395. Ask for upgrade pricing. Whiplash in Hypertext 4.1 Tired of searching manually for a statistic or piece of data? Now you can have the entire Module set over 600 pages of text, over 1000 references, dozens of tables, illustrations, and diagrams, and literally thousands of facts. And they re available instantly at the touch of a key. A PC computer running Windows is all you need to take advantage of this extremely powerful technology. Use for reports, rebuttals, newsletters, websites. Keep yourself cutting edge sharp. Command the most authoritative synthesis of this important literature for just $379. Upgrade prices available to owners of previous versions. Annual Advanced Program Proceedings are available as PLUG-INS, $95. A note regarding Windows versions Whiplash in Hypertext 4.1 will run in all versions of Windows through Windows 10 with the exception of Whindows 8. Users of Windows 8 will need to upgrade to Windows 10 in order to use Whiplash in Hypertext 4.1 Page vii

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8 Other Fine Products EasyTrax TM Temporarily unavailable. Low load, long duration traction reduces spasm, pain; improves healing of soft tissues. Effective home care for the 85 million Americans with chronic neck pain. Lightweight; stores in handy tote bag. Cost-effective: comparable units cost 5 to 10 times as much. Fits all sizes; easy Velcro adjustment. Easy to use; comes pre-assembled. Patient has total control of the ramp-up and amount of traction. Easy to sustain traction through simple foot pressure. Safe; excess traction pull halter off head. Spares the TM joint. Developed by Dr. A.C. Croft. Home or mobile cervical traction device Door jamb placement of anchor controls angle of pull Pulley Velcro closure Nylon strapping Comfortable halter Professional price $59 Suggested retail price $120 6-pack price $295

9 Other Fine Products Auto Safety Facts A Presentation System You may not realize it, but now you re an auto safety expert. And only you can simplify the complex and often baffling world of automotive safety for consumers. And this is critically important information that can prevent disabilities and literally save lives. Did you know that 80% of drivers do not know how to adjust their head restraints; that 80% of parents do not correctly use CRS, even though 96% of them believe they do? Did you know that high back booster seats are 80% more effective than seat belts for kids? Yet only 10% of kids who should ride in them actually do. How many consumers can make sense of NCAP and IIHS scores? Who can they turn to for answers? Finally, there is an easy way to provide this vital public service and gain tremendously from the PR you will generate. This is the same material Dr. Croft speaks to journalists, radio talk show hosts, and TV anchors about. And now, you can too. Speak also to local service clubs, police departments, hospitals, corporations, schools or PTAs any group, in fact. They need only one thing in common: they drive some kind of motor vehicle.here is what is included: Two sets of the two Auto Safety Facts Posters (one set for framing in the office and one set to take with you to presentations or lectures). A convenient carrying case for your two mobile Auto Safety Facts Posters. A package of 100 Auto Safety Facts brochures. These compliment the Auto Safety Facts Posters. A package of 100 After Crash Check-list brochures. These can be given out to the audience (or your patients) to be kept in their cars. They contain instructions for the collection of critical information in the event of a crash. Place your name and phone numbers on these brochures. The presentation system also includes a cutting edge PowerPoint presentation* discussing these critical topics, much of it incorporating exciting and unique video footage from SRISD and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, as well as some of the latest biomedical information. It comes with a complete talking points tutorial and speaker s comments to help familiarize you. It s a snap to learn. And best of all, like Whiplash: the Epidemic 6.0 Pro, it is fully editable. Topics include: Seat belts Child restraint systems (CRS) Airbags Head restraints ABS/ESP Drinking and driving How to choose a safe vehicle $ Sold only as a complete set. Replacement brochures available from SRISD. *A PowerPoint Viewer is included and allows you to view or show the presentation. To have full editing capabilities you need Microsoft s PowerPoint software program, which is available commercially and is not included. Page ix

10 Graduates can be listed on our GRADUATES page. For information on how to get on, check out the website. Check out the consumer side of our website The Spine Research Institute of San Diego 826 Orange Ave., Ste. 633 Coronado, CA (619) Copyright 2018 by Arthur C. Croft, Ph.D., D.C., M.Sc., M.P.H., F.A.C.O. No portion of this book may be duplicated for resale in any form without the express written permission of the author. Any citation or quote from this book must be accompanied by the appropriate attribution.

Dr. Jason Mazzarella DC, DAAPM, DCAPM, DAAETS, FIAMA, MVC-FRA, CATSM, CMVT, CPM, CBIS, BSc Kin, BSc HPA

Dr. Jason Mazzarella DC, DAAPM, DCAPM, DAAETS, FIAMA, MVC-FRA, CATSM, CMVT, CPM, CBIS, BSc Kin, BSc HPA Excellence in Crash Forensics and Chronic Pain Tel Ca: (647) 991-7246 Email: DoctorMazz@gmail.com